Sunday in Wales

Nipped out to Wales for the afternoon. Please comment as I took thesr in RAW and had a go at a bit of fiddling with the results.









What about the scouring sponge in the last one?

Shoot in raw and fiddle if you're gonna be doing shots like these
Real nice pics.

Going to be critical hope you dont mind and just my newbie opinion.

Number 1 maybe crop a bit of the bottom and give us that big 'V' shape of a sky
Number 2 could be just those fab mountains and the sky or maybe a bit less path. Pity you couldnt get some more detail into that big brown lump of a hillside on the left. Couldav been done maybe as a HDR image.
Number 3 has a load of 10-20 lens bend and could do with a drop of lens correction in CS3 if youve got it. Also its a bit flat and could do with lifting a whole lot. Looks like the reds been punched up a lot looking at the items on board ship.

Hope you dont mind - lens corrected that last one and poked it into B&W.




How come we never spot things like that scourer till we're pouring over our shots on a computer screen.

Good shots - I like em

Robby, what have you done to the hillside? Looks completely solarized. : And I don't agree that the 'lens bend' needs correcting, to me just looks like a super-wide-angle shot. Everything looks a bit squashed in your version.

I think it's just over-exposed, and this may be over enthusiastic raw development - were you trying to get plenty of shadow detail MXV? I think you did just a bit too much, and it's got a washed out look, and if you check the histogram there's a gap at the shadow end, and a sharp peak at the whites, meaning that the highlights are blown out, and the shadows aren't as deep as they could be.




I'd have another go at processing this one. Do agree with Robby about the reds being very saturated though.

Dan

[quote="Daniel Bridge....Robby, what have you done to the hillside? Looks completely solarized. : And I don't agree that the 'lens bend' needs correcting, to me just looks like a super-wide-angle shot....[/quote]Yep I masked out that sky and it grabbed a hold of the hilside too then I tweaked it way up - I liked it When you vertically lens correct you lose the top or the bottom so the resulting crop does 'squash' it in. To compensate for this you have to snap ultra wide bit knowing you're gonna lose some of it.
...but got to admit it was 1 in the morning dead tired, eyes squiffy, and it was only a quick bash at it in PS.

Like the comp of the last one especially - can't believe the difference in the weather, I was about 20 minutes away walking on Anglesey from Red Wharf Bay surrounded by solid fog most of the day !!

simon

With the third one the sun had gone behind the headland but the sky was still very bright. The shadows between the boats and the wall were quite dark so I tried to compensate. I must have overdone it. I did increase the saturation, but not by much. The bright reds were very bright anyway so they have become too bright. I liked the wide angle effect so left it, but I did tilt everything anticlockwise as the end of the wall was leaning over to the right. I liked the colour of the rope in the foreground and got that in on purpose but did not notice the scourer!

I have seen HDR mentioned a lot around the forum, but I know nothing about it, this being my 1st digital camera.

This is how it was un-fiddled with